Better outcomes may come from new drugs, strategies to rev up the immune system and learning to identify the disease sooner in its course — here's how scientists are making progress fighting pancreatic cancer 👇
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/progress-for-pancreatic-cancer
Adult children vs. parents, siblings vs. siblings — calling quits on one’s kin seems increasingly common.
As more adults cut off their parents, a researcher calls for closer scrutiny of causes and effects, and suggests paths to reconciliation.
✍️ Katherine Ellison
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/causes-of-family-estrangement
Scientists are trying to name the qualities that make someone wise and figure out how to cultivate them. ✍️ Emily Laber-Warren
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2026/what-is-wisdom-can-it-be-taught
Success made in Hof 🌍
Ashwanth Krishna Vijay hat seinen MBA an der Hochschule Hof gemacht und arbeitet heute in Columbus, Ohio, für GEALAN.
Von Coimbatore (Indien) über Oberfranken nach Nordamerika: Diese Reise hat in Hof begonnen. 🎓✈️
Erfahrt hier mehr zu seinem Weg: https://campuls.hof-university.de/hochschule-wirtschaft/success-made-in-hof-ashwanth-krishna-von-oberfranken-nach-nordamerika/
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Keeping global warming to manageable levels will require removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it somewhere else. The world’s oceans may be a promising option.
✍️ Sandy Ong
A growing body of research suggests that our closest known relatives, the Neanderthals, had brains to go with their brawn 🧠 💪
The latest finding: Neanderthals may have used birch tar as an antibiotic salve.
✍️ Laura Baisas reports at Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/health/neanderthals-antibiotic-birch-tar-medicine/
For more evidence of Neanderthal creativity, read our 2023 story.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2023/new-finds-about-neanderthal-brains-and-behavior
You won’t see a beaver sitting with its tail stretched out behind it in the new Disney-Pixar film Hoppers.
That’s thanks to Emily Fairfax, a scientist who studies how these ecosystem engineers can make landscapes fire- and drought-resistant.
Fairfax lent her expertise to the making of the film, ensuring that the beaver science was up to snuff.
🎧️ Listen/watch Fairfax in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/03/04/hoppers-movie-beaver-consultant-emily-fairfax
Emily Fairfax has spent the past decade studying beavers and how they change landscapes by altering the flow of rivers and streams. She spent five years working with a Pixar animation team to make sure the movie accurately portrays the furry rodents.
Once considered cellular junk, non-coding RNAs are emerging as key players in everything from brain development to cancer — with much still to be discovered.
✍️ Christina Szalinski
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/noncoding-rna-molecules-in-cells
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists to better understand the universe. ✍️ Katie McCormick
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